Director, Engineering - Listings and Evaluation

Zillow

1d•Remote

About The Position

Zillow’s Customer Engineering organization builds the dream, shop, and connect experiences across Zillow’s sites and apps. In this role, you will lead the engineering teams behind Zillow’s For Sale Home Details Page and listing evaluation experiences across web, iOS, Android, and backend services, helping customers better understand and evaluate a home with confidence. We’re looking for a product-minded engineering leader to shape the future of Zillow’s listings and evaluation experience. You will lead teams building customer-facing products that help people understand, compare, and evaluate homes more clearly, using Zillow’s rich listing data, media, personalization, and AI capabilities. This role calls for strong technical judgment, people leadership, and cross-functional partnership to turn ambitious product goals into durable engineering strategy and high-quality execution.

Requirements

Experience leading multiple software engineering teams through managers and growing both managers and senior engineers.
Experience improving engineering productivity, quality, and ways of working across multiple teams or a broader organization.
A track record of delivering consumer-facing product experiences at scale while balancing customer impact, technical quality, reliability, and speed.
Ability to turn broad product or business goals into clear engineering direction and aligned execution across cross-functional partners.
Sound technical judgment and ability to engage on architecture, delivery tradeoffs, and system evolution while improving execution and operational rigor.
Excitement by the opportunity to build AI-powered customer experiences and ability to help teams apply emerging capabilities in practical ways.
Strong communicator who can tailor your message to executives, peers, managers, and engineers alike.

Nice To Haves

Experience leading engineering for shopping, marketplace, or decision-support product experiences is a plus.

Responsibilities

Lead multiple engineering teams across web, iOS, Android, and backend that power Zillow’s listings and evaluation experiences, including the Home Details Page.
Set the engineering strategy for experiences that help customers evaluate homes with greater clarity and confidence.
Partner closely with Product, Design, Data Science, AI, and adjacent engineering teams to deliver high-impact customer experiences across Zillow’s shopping journey.
Guide the development of AI-powered shopping and evaluation experiences that make Zillow more helpful and differentiated for customers.
Drive strong execution through clear goals, prioritization, operating rhythms, and measurable improvements in quality, reliability, and delivery.
Coach and grow engineering leaders, helping them build healthy teams, strengthen technical judgment, and support career development for engineers and managers.
Improve engineering effectiveness by strengthening planning, accountability, and the tools and practices that help teams move faster with high quality.
Influence decisions across organizational boundaries, balancing near-term delivery with longer-term product, platform, and architecture investments.